St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-16

The directors of the Gettysburg panorama
in st. Paul make public the following state
ment of facts regarding an alleged unfair
and unfriendly attempt of supposed COM
petitors to injure their business. The
Atlanta picture at Minneapolis has always
received kind words and generous patron
age from st. Paul people-from none more
so than from the stockholders of the later
st. Paul enterprise. 1t was supposed that
this feeling would be reciprocated and that
a spirit of generous rivalry and mutual help
fulnesS would prevail since, as rule, all
persons who visited one of the pictures
wonld desire to visit the other.
But only one day after the opening of the
st. Paul panorama, letter was written
from Minneapolis (misdated ''St. Paur'1
to Chicago paper containing column of
virulent, malicious and libelouS abuse of
the ST. Paul picture, tailed out with a half
column of fulsome praise of the Mime
apolis picture-thus clearly betraying its
origin. as afterward confirmed by other
developments. 1t was the manifest inten-
ton to throw ''chill' over the reception
of the Gettysburg painting by the reproduce
ton Of this article in st. Paul, and the
Minneapolis association sought to secure
this by promptly seeking to have it
reprinted in st. Paul papers at cost of
500 or $125 to the Minneapolis panorama
treasury. But the article was so clearly
libelous las affecting the business of the
firm at Englewood, near Chicago, which
produced this Gettysburg painting. far
more than the st. Paul Panorama associa-
ton. which had the means ready at hand
for promptly refuting its sianderous aSser-
tions) that the newspaper proprietors, in
self-defense. rejected the tempting offer.
h., hall bad @t,otr iY,40 &Io
Minneapolis directors have gotten out an
advertising sheet labeled a monthly pub
LEGATION, specifically announced as issued
by the Minneapolis Panorama company
and bearing the name of It's manager, j.
Newton Mind, as its editor in which
this malicious and SlanderouS letter is re-
produced in full, with glazing headlines.
This sheet is now being thrown broad
cast in Minneapolis, in the legislature, on
the trains and elsew here. By thus adopt
ing and indorsing their lately fatherleSs
progeny the Minneapolis panorama people
have exposed their mean-spirited local ami
mostly, have revealed their purpose of car
rying on deadly warfare of hate and de-
traction, and have. moreover, plainly
subjected themselves to Sc
we're liability for exemplary damages
to the enterpriSing firm which makes bust
ness OIE producing one VI IneSo successful
Gettysburg pictures every ninety DAYS, and
which has already inaugurated proceedings
in Illinois against the Chicago paper which
published the libel. The owners of the st.
Paul panorama can afford to look with con-
tempt on this despicable warfare, for the
5000 delighted visitors who have beheld it
during the twenty-five days since it was
opened are an enthusiastic and unanimous
body of ready witnesses to the absurd
falsity of the article alluded to. Minneap-
oils people generally certainly do not APP
prove this style of war, for they have been
in large numbers admiring patrons of the
St. Paul Gettysburg" The merits of this
superb picture need no defense. 1t was
carefully examined, found fully satisfac-
tory, and fully up to the contract standard
of superiority to the original Chicago pic
ture before it was accepted and paid for by
the local association here. But st. Paul
people may see in this characteristic attack
on one of their favorite public institutions
sample of the treatment their public
| spirited citizens. who invest in enterprises
for the general good, may expect at the
hands of uDgeenrous rivals.